I've been having too much fun with the new home watershed AI models. But the cutting edge sometimes draws blood, and on Monday I had to disentangle a model from a task that it simply could not…

(4 Feb 2004) – Season 3 Episode 14 (Serial 166)

How to design agents as a graph, run them through a harness that keeps them reliable, sandbox them because you can’t just trust what they do. (This is a follow-up to AI Writes Code, You Own the…

I made a mistake in my table earlier today regarding the base price of the M5 Max Mac Studio , but my mistake was because of a rather sneaky design in Apple’s purchasing flow. Apple’s web interface…

Attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than most organizations can safely patch. Defenders need an emergency response model that contains exposure, hunts for compromise, deploys fixes, and…

Guiding like a lighthouse It's a place where you'll be safe to feel our grace 'Cause we've all. made mistakes If you've lost your way And I will leave the light on

And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]

I watched a bunch of videos from this week’s World Humanoid Robot Games in China. This segment on YouTube is an okay place to start. These robots are advancing more quickly than I was…

Since I take many notes in [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]] with [[https://orgmode.org/][org-mode]] and [[https://github.com/protesilaos/denote][Denote]], I tend to instantly invoke [...

Oberbozen is situated above Bozen, and you get a nice view of the Dolomites. Bozen, however, didn’t convince us as much - we should’ve returned earlier to Lago di Caldaro to swim some more.

C++26 is generous with new containers — we’re getting both std::hive and std::inplace_vector. In this post, we’ll look at the latter. Until C++26, the standard library had no vector-like container…

Hello! I am super uber busy with school at this moment, hope everyone is having fun in their first week of school, even though I started early.

01. Bunny X - Love On a High Floor Love On A High Floor by Bunny X 02. Shelajit - Tang Dynasty Tang Dynasty by shelajit 03. Stare Away - In Absence In Absence by Stare Away 04. Margo Price - Days of…

In May 1942, the high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, was attacked in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance agents in an assassination operation…

Just a few days ago this little project was the poor brother of the two projects that succeed it. But hey – things change and this is now a VERY useful tool – I hope you enjoy. Before the…

One of the things I’ve spent a significant amount of time on is some Agent Foundations-adjacent philosophy work.While I’ve put together reading lists and simulation environments, I have mostly…

I wrote a whole other post that was super long just talking about how shitty I feel but frankly rereading it made me sick lol. Coping is the mechanism in which we as sentient creatures use to process…

I recently saw the Sergei Loznitsa movie Two Prosecutors and was impressed enough that I decided to read the novella by Georgy Demidov that it was based on. I’m glad I did so, and I’m…

Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 makes me melancholic about summer, again . It's been colder for a while here where I live. I'm not good with lower temperatures nor the humidity 1 , so I await autumn and then…

The estimated number of available (usable) nuclear warheads per country since 1945. Data available on data.world. First as stacked bars to show the totals. Current count is behind country name. Next…

I've been saying "life is so beautiful" more often because my best friend started saying it. Whenever I eat a yummy dish or something nice happens to me or i have an exceptional bowel movement, ive…

the moment when I realized how much I was using my hands to talk… :’) catch me waving my hands drawing live at twitch.tv/chibirdart, in 2 hours @ 4:30 PM PST!

Week 34 of 2026: lowlandsI went to a festival! I've added a new section called "listened" to deal with that, but I must warn: I wasn't really there for the music, I mostly just enjoyed…

cw: smoking Since my last relapse post, I've struggled on and off to maintain a general sobriety from smoking cigarettes. I bought two packs the other day despite telling myself I would only get…

I think I might need to back off a bit. My right shoulder is slightly hurting like it did in the fall when I went too hard and had to have my scapula dry-needles to release the pent up lactic acid.…

weather: ☀️ melting critters: fuck going outside today, honestly the proust questionnaire was floating around bearblog some months ago--let's do the rosanna greenstreet one from the guardian what is…

In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

I thought it prudent after the last entry to refrain from further comment on Bartz until after all appeals were timely filed. Two were: Edelson, PC v. Anthropic PBC, No. 26–5391 (9th Cir., filed 18…

In last week’s edition of Dense Discovery, publisher Kai Brach linked to an article, written by Kate Wagner, challenging the notion that our phones are over overpoweringly addictive. But they…

Spotify lets you request all the data it has on your account. It provides a ton of data, including detailed data about every track you’ve ever played on the service … Continue reading…

I dislike using “medieval” in any sort of negative context, since that has been done so often and so unfairly. This time, however, I will, and that’s because, historically, fighting about words…

On the second day of a road trip I took last year, my trunk was already full and my mother was sharing the back seat with four bottles of wine, two hats, a few liters of apple juice and a box of…

“ T he [Iranian] regime [massacred] up to 40,000 in just two days in January. Since then, an execution spree has killed hundreds, many hung from cranes in public squares. Still more remain on death…

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Four years of living in our home feels different without Cocoa. We’re still figuring out how to make this house feel warm again while holding onto the pieces that will always be hers.

Links for you. Science: Scientists find evidence for two origins of life on Earth. Life may share one ancient genetic code, but new evidence suggests free-living cells emerged independently twice.…

In the last version (1.5.2) I added the Contrast group blend modes: Soft, hard, vivid, linear and pin light as well as hard mix. But that picker menu was getting awfully long and it could sometimes…

Part 2 to this post I'm of the belief that art isn't just a "product" . The end result is one of many representations of the artist. Their motivations, frustrations, anxieties, and desires can all be…

In 2095 the human race could travel through space, but Earth was still its only home. There were stations on the Moon, expeditions to the planets, and machines farther out. But there was no place…

Oh, I'm all in Catch me when you realize that I'm falling Outside of the shame, we're all insane I don't wanna fake it, I don't wanna waste my life

My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week. I…

Ignoring this site for as long as I have has led to it being broken for a couple of months. If you’re seeing this post, great! It works again. What happened? Well, my site’s been running…

* Lorris Chevalier, When Garlic Defeated the Magnet: The Long Life of a Medieval Natural Belief , at "Medievalists.net" * Rob Alspaugh, Deriving Ought from Fitting? , on St. Anselm's use of…

Scripts and instructions for migrating a VBulletin5 system to Discourse

I don’t usually, but did today. I stopped at a Starbucks I used to frequent because I had some time to kill. I figured if I was going to sit for a while, I would be a considerate person and…

There's a term I like: 'innovation theatre'. It's used to describe when a business does things that look like innovation but really aren't. Hackathons with no real meaning,…

Augustine, Letters 213.1 ( Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum , vol. 57, p. 373; tr. Sister Wilfrid Parsons): In this life we are all mortal men and the last day of this life is always…

LOGIC ANALYZER SHOWS SHORT GLITCHES THAT CAN AFFECT STATE MACHINE When looking at the logic analyzer traces I collected while doing seeks with the Virtual 2315 Cartridge Facility (V2315CF), where the…

They are bad at most stuff. So what is the secret?